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Tapestry Dance Company headed to China
Austin’s Tapestry Dance Company — one of the few professional tap dance companys in the country — will tour take it’s celebrated NEA American Masterpiece production of “The Souls of Our Feet: A Celebration of American Tap Dance” to China for this fall, the company will announce today.
Starting in Shanghai, the company will present 15 performances and also participate in the Shanghai International Tap Festival.
Additionally, Tapestry artistic director Acia Gray will help develop a Chinese training system and syllabus of American tap dance for use in the Chinese university system. Meetings have been underway over the last two years. Chinese delegates are currently in Austin to arrange the Tapestry tour.
“The Souls of Our Feet” smartly captures the history of American tap dance by combining archival footage of classic, and often under-recognized, dancers with live recreations of their revelatory creative work. More than just a simple homage , the show manages an engaging overview of a distinctly American dance form of tap. Since 2007, “The Souls of Our Feet” has toured the U.S. and Canada.
See more info about the show here.
Photo courtesy Tapestry Dance Company.
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